permaculture

342 Facilitator’s Handbook for Permaculture Workshops

Creative thinking : Products for cooperatives and small enterprises

Method : Participatory group brainstorm

Tools : Black/white board, markers

References : PC Book MOD 13 – Cooperatives and Enterprise Development

Objective : Participants create a list of different products that can be made

and sold in their area

Together as a whole group, conduct a participatory brainstorm to create a list of potential

products that a cooperative or small enterprise in that area could make and sell.

Include in the list:

• Base material/source for the product.


• Products that can be sold without value adding.


• Products that can be sold by value adding.

Value adding is a term for making a new product to add value to an existing product.

For example making jam from fruit, making tempe from soy beans, making oil from

sandalwood, coconut, or candle nut, and making bamboo furniture from bamboo.

On the board create a table something like the following.

Leave the answers to the questions blank so that the participants come up

with their own ideas.

Material/source Products that can be sold without value adding made with value addingProducts that can be^

Bamboo Poles, propagates, fresh shoots Furniture, musical instruments, cans of shoots, potted plants

Tomato plants Seeds, seedlings, fresh tomatoes Tomato sauce, tomato chutney, natural pesticides, dried tomatoes

Buffalo Meat, milk, labour – ploughing fields, offspring, leather Dried meat, leather products – bags, wallets, clothes -

For more information refer to the “Value adding” section of PC Book MOD 13 –

Cooperatives and Enterprise Development.

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